| Making homemade meatballs is a smart way to use up tough, cheap cuts of meat and turning it into a meal that will quickly feed a hungry family.
Most of us, use meatballs in a variety of culinary dishes but what do we really know about the meatball? Possibly originating in Persia, the meatball immigrated to Canada by Italians around the 1870s. But the meatballs the Italians brought to Canada were not the typical big meatballs we have today. Italians called them polpettes and they were smaller than their American cousins, made with equal parts bread and meat (sometimes even fish) and very much a simple peasant dish. In Italian culture, polpettes are the main course and sometimes served in a light broth. Hold the marinara and pasta! The delicious spaghetti and meatballs with tomato sauce was purely a North American invention by Italian immigrants adapting and using available ingredients. Canadians quickly embraced spaghetti with meatballs as it was a delicious, inexpensive meal that could feed a large family. As the meatball spread around the world, it can now be found in a variety of cuisines such as the Swedish köttbullar, Spanish albondigas, Dutch bitterballen, Greek keftedes, South African skilpedjies, and from India through the Middle East – kofta. And this meal of necessity has now transformed into thousands of fantastic meatball dishes! If you are planning on making some meatballs, your local Lococo’s has a great sale on Lean Ground Pork for $2.99 / lb. If you need a mouth-watering meatball recipe try our: Beef / Chicken / Turkey / Pork Meatballs with ZEG Sauce Glaze. And when you are making meatballs, you can now appreciate the long history and journey it took to get into your kitchen. And there’s no better way to honour the meatball then serving them glazed in ZEG Sauces! Enjoy! Savour the Flavour! 🐷 ZEG Sauces are a multiple use condiment sauce that can be used on any food around the world. 🐷 You can use ZEG Sauces for basting, marinating, spreading, as a side dipping sauce, or as a dressing the options are unlimited. 🐷 Use ZEG Sauces on everything from chicken, pork, and beef to vegetables, rice, and tofu. |
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